RISD Current [Painting]
Joe McKendry is a painter and illustrator whose work has appeared in over 50 publications worldwide, including the New York Times, the London Times, the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and GQ. His children’s book, Beneath the Streets of Boston: Building America’s First Subway (David R. Godine, 2005), chronicles the planning and construction of Boston’s subway system at the turn of the last century. A Boston native,
McKendry teaches painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and runs a summer course in archaeological illustration at the Etruscan site of Poggio Civitate near Siena. He lives and works in Brookline, MA, with his wife and two children.